Diagnosis and Treatment of Agitation and Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit Patient Jason P. Caplan … patients are attacked with insomnolency, so that the disease is not concocted; they…
Vasculitis in the Intensive Care Unit Paul F. Dellaripa Donough Howard The vasculitides are a group of disorders characterized by the presence of destructive inflammation in vessel walls [1,2,3,4]. The…
Anaphylaxis Frederic F. Little Helen M. Hollingsworth Anaphylaxis is the most severe and potentially fatal form of the immediate hypersensitivity reactions. The term anaphylaxis (antiphylaxis) is derived from the Greek…
Rheumatologic Diseases in the Intensive Care Unit Nancy Y.N. Liu Judith A. Stebulis Patients with established rheumatologic diseases are rarely admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) because of their…
Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in the Intensive Care Unit David F. Driscoll Bruce R. Bistrian Nutritional and metabolic support during acute illness is an integral part of the clinical care…
Disease-Specific Nutrition Mickey M. Ott Bryan R. Collier Douglas Seidner Introduction In the critically ill patient, the constant barrage of multiple physiologic derangements quickly leads to malnutrition. The hypermetabolic response…
Critical Care of the Lung Transplant Recipient Luis F. Angel Stephanie M. Levine Over the past three decades, lung transplantation (LT) has become a successful therapeutic option for patients with…
Nutritional Therapy in the Critically Ill Patient Dominic J. Nompleggi The nutritional management of critically ill patients has changed dramatically over the past 10 years. Changes in the areas of…
Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Paul A. Carpenter Marco Mielcarek Ann E. Woolfrey General Principles Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) typically is performed in patients with life-threatening disorders of the hematopoietic system. The…
Critical Care of the Liver and Intestinal Transplant Recipients Ruy J. Cruz Jr William D. Payne Abhinav Humar Introduction The field of liver transplantation has undergone remarkable advances in the…
